Elizabeth D. Leonard

Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War

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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's accomplices and then wanted to go after Jefferson Davis, whom he felt had instigated the assassination-despite stern opposition, not least of all from Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Elizabeth D. Leonard tells for the first time the full story of the two assassination trials. She explores the questions that made these trials pivotal in American histor… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-32677-2
EAN: 9780393326772
Produktnummer: 1747361
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.5 cm 367 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 367

Über den Autor

Elizabeth D. Leonard is the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College. The author of several books, including Yankee Women, All the Daring of a Soldier, Lincoln's Avengers, and Men of Color to Arms!, she lives in Waterville, Maine.